Blightstone

I've been trying to give the game a chance but the gameplay loop is pretty torturous. The best way to play is to never let the enemy have a turn. If they get a turn there is a chance that they just randomly decide to oneshot one of your units or the crystal. As someone that plays plenty of both roguelikes and crpgs with a very tactical-minded mind, this game has been nothing short of frustrating. Your positioning hardly matters because there is very little indication of what enemies are going to do and at times what abilities they have. The tank class is hardly tanky and ends up needing to be healed every heal cycle unless he gets self heal, but even then he feels like a liability. Neither of the other classes want to be hit so to most optimally distribute aggro/damage you need to poorly position units to make sure your "tank" isn't burst down. Character passives like %healing on the tank class or some sort of sustainability that you don't need to roll for after combats could help. I've gotten to the third boss on the hardest difficulty but a lot of runs can just get stunted by the first boss, who can just charge at your crystal (Objective you need to keep alive to keep playing). Eventually you learn a mini dash that it can use to dodge once-two-three times with investment, but the guy can just run up and throw your crystal/units at one another and near oneshot the crystal. So if you don't 1-2 turn the boss he just twohits both the crystal and one of your units. I think the devs can take some parts of systems from a number of roguelikes or crpgs that have more experience with the genre. ACTUAL FEEDBACK FOR DEVS- See other games that display intention- see slay the spire 2,wartales,rogue trader, where nothing is a surprise. Make the unit positioning something you configure AT THE START of combat rather than between areas??? again see wartales, see rogue trader, where you have an area that you can set your units up before starting combat, especially with how much of a liability your crystal is. Either give the brawler starting armor, temporary HP, a block/brace action, or a regeneration passive- otherwise he is a rather poor frontliner (your only frontliner where I am in the game) If anything, the crystal could also start with some sort of temporary HP? Damage seems to be at a rather weird balance place, as defensive stats are rather rare, damage is too high for how much healing is available, combats are either 1-2 turns or doomed. If the intention is to have longer fights that you have to continuously play well, then lower damage for both the player and the enemies. I feel like combats are in a weird state where you need to try to oneshot as many things as possible on the field to be able to have a remotely successful combat outcome. The current status of the state of combat in this game is rather linear and can be stale, as you don't really need to think up any different plans for any given combat other than "how can i kill as many of the enemies as I can in turn 1 so they don't kill my dog and half my brawler this turn" I think the game has potential! I just think that the current state is a little unsustainable for replayability. Please feel free to leave a comment on my review if you would prefer to discuss any of these thoughts or would like more specific feedback.